Reducing your Amazon Web Services (AWS) costs can be as easy as turning off unused resources and buying Reserved Instances. But as your AWS infrastructure grows, finding and acting on those opportunities to save becomes more challenging as the number or complexity of projects grows.

Review this webinar to learn how REA Group uses Cloudability AWS cost management tools to manage their infrastructure and reduce their own TCO, while taking advantage of a large and complex set of global deployments on AWS.

What you'll learn:
- How to find and shut down resources that aren’t being used
- Making decisions about Reserved Instance purchases that are easier, faster and more likely to save you money
- How to communicate those savings to stakeholders in finance and management

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Pricing Models on AWS
On-Demand
Pay for compute capacity
by the hour with no long-
term commitments
For spiky workloads,
or to define needs
Reserved
Make a low, one-time
payment and receive a
significant discount on the
hourly charge
For committed utilization
Spot
Bid for unused capacity,
charged at a Spot Price
which fluctuates based on
supply and demand

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About REA Group
• REA Group is a $6 Billion Market Cap
online business based in Australia
• REA started an aggressive move to
AWS in 2010
• I’ve been involved as a core part of
that effort since the beginning
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• Our cloud adoption grew, increasing
the need for detailed cost reporting
• We had no way to allocate costs
between four large business units
• We needed to better understand our
usage profile
We had to go further
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TCO Takeaways
Putting AWS cost efficiency into action
• Watch your AWS spending every day
• Find what you’re not using so you can stop paying for it
•Determine what “underutilized” means for various instance roles
•Buy Reserved Instances iteratively and often